Ansible vs CLion: What are the differences?
Developers describe Ansible as "Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine". Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use. On the other hand, CLion is detailed as "A cross-platform IDE for C and C++". Knowing your code through and through, CLion can take care of the routine while you focus on the important things. Boost your productivity with the keyboard-centric approach (Vim-emulation plugin is also available in plugin repository), full coding assistance, smart and relevant code completion, fast project navigation, intelligent intention actions, and reliable refactorings.
Ansible can be classified as a tool in the "Server Configuration and Automation" category, while CLion is grouped under "Integrated Development Environment".
Some of the features offered by Ansible are:
- Ansible's natural automation language allows sysadmins, developers, and IT managers to complete automation projects in hours, not weeks.
- Ansible uses SSH by default instead of requiring agents everywhere. Avoid extra open ports, improve security, eliminate "managing the management", and reclaim CPU cycles.
- Ansible automates app deployment, configuration management, workflow orchestration, and even cloud provisioning all from one system.
On the other hand, CLion provides the following key features:
- Smart Editor
- Code Generation
- CMake
"Agentless" is the primary reason why developers consider Ansible over the competitors, whereas "Good editor" was stated as the key factor in picking CLion.
Ansible is an open source tool with 38.2K GitHub stars and 16K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ansible's open source repository on GitHub.
DigitalOcean, 9GAG, and Rainist are some of the popular companies that use Ansible, whereas CLion is used by Codealike, Zscaler, and EXANTE. Ansible has a broader approval, being mentioned in 960 company stacks & 588 developers stacks; compared to CLion, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
